American missionary Lyle Hutson died...

MISSIONARY DIES.

September 25, 1986

NAIROBI, KENYA — MISSIONARY DIES. American missionary Lyle Hutson died Wednesday while waiting to be questioned by police. J.P. Mwangovya, deputy secretary of internal security, told The Associated Press that Hutson, 63, ''just collapsed'' after reading a newspaper article in which President Daniel arap Moi accused the East Africa Christian Mission of undermining Kenya's security. The American Embassy said it was making a ''routine inquiry.'' Police picked up Hutson and another mission worker Friday and held them without charge. A colleague of the missionary, who had a heart condition, said Hutson ''was forced to sleep on a bare floor that was covered with urine from an overflowing toilet. Several times he was rousted at night for roll call.'' He was released Monday with instructions to report daily for questioning. Kenyan newspapers said last week that customs officers in Mombasa, Kenya's main Indian Ocean port, found weapons that Jane Hamilton, wife of the mission director, says were air rifles and air pistols belonging to mission members. Kenya has severe restrictions on the private ownership of guns, including toy weapons resembling real ones.